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Following up on my analyses the past few months, my take is largely corroborated with the recent ‘Vault 7’ release – the biggest intelligence dump in history.  Dwarfing Watergate and Snowden, the new dump shows vast surveillance measure employed by the CIA and who is really wiretapping (in other words the Russian narrative is dismantled).  I also show how  this all fits into a larger picture of the globalists, and their minion the Pope, are seeking to destroy any sovereignty or nationhood in their mad trek to implement a technocracy.

Bill Maher speaks to the crowd at the Annual Literary Awards Festival in Beverly Hills, Calif. A new social media campaign, #BigotBillMaher, seeks to challenge Maher’s years of unfettered Islamophobic rhetoric. (Photo: Casey Curry/Invision/AP)

Yes, health care can be this simple. We just have to choose it. Californians will be able to choose it very soon.by Gaius PubliusAs we wrote recently, California has a unique opportunity to both resist the Ryan-Trump destruction of the ACA and establish a state-wide single-payer health care system.

A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Character matters-- more than labelsNationally at least, I think it was Jonathan Martin who broke the story about Tom Perriello running for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia, “disrupting Democrats’ well-laid plans in what promises to be the most-watched election in the country this year.” The Democratic establishment h

Sanders shows he knows he has an ace. Will he play it?by Gaius PubliusSanders has more leverage than he's ever had in his life. He has the right vision and the right goal. He's also holding the right cards — all he has to do is play them. In particular, he has an ace. Will he play it if he loses to Clinton?To understand what I just wrote, listen to the short video clip above.

Climate champion P.G. Sittenfeld is the one choice for the U.S. Senate from Ohioby Gaius PubliusI've been watching the Ohio Senate primary contest between former governor Ted Strickland and progressive P.G. Sittenfeld with interest. I keep having to remind myself that Strickland is actually a Democrat and that the race is still in the primary phase.

Donald Trump talking about trade during his March 8 victory speechby Gaius PubliusShorter Thomas Frank: It's easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class. I want to share a piece about Donald Trump, racism and working class voters. It's long enough (and good enough) to ask you to read the whole thing.

Is Nicolo Machiavelli about to whisper into Obama's shell-like ear? (Source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusWhen we talk amongst ourselves, we leftie writers and activists, I sometimes hear it said that Obama should nominate someone very liberal to replace Antonin Scalia. I also sometimes hear that if he doesn't do that, it's because he feels pressured not to.

It's coming from the feelThat this ain't exactly realOr it's real but it ain't exactly thereby Gaius PubliusAh democracy; it creeps in through the cracks, even through the cracks of the deliberately undemocratic use of superdelegates by the king- and queenmakers in the Democratic Party. (Ironic name, that.)Here's what I mean by "undemocratic" — Debbie Wasserman Schultz explains it to Jake Tapper (h/t Daily Kos diarist Th0rn; my emphasis):